I'm not even a woman and I didn't find puberty "terrifying"
(just adult men's reactions to it lbh). I think maybe they should look into, idk, learning basic anatomy? Teaching kids to be prepared? Like cis girls shouldn't be TERRIFIED of something like that.
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I agree. The only part of puberty that scared me was other people's reactions, and even that fear was mitigated by my mom's advice and love.
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I can at least understand that from the perspective of puberty drawing lechery, but making that one of the gates they keep is disgusting.
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It’s Genesis. A quite literally taken version of women’s lives and destiny: “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
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I found puberty distressing because it brought me heavy periods and painful cramps, but it didn't make me dysphoric, and if I could make it so nobody had to experience painful periods, I would! Like I don't understand the impulse to make everyone else go through the same pain.
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This! It's the pain of things. Plus the boobs always get in the way. Running? Best strap that down. Reading in bed? Pet/child wants to lay on your chest? Gross guys staring at you? Etcetera...
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I can put my hand up to being confused, but the idea of being terrified at puberty reminds me of the final chapter of Scherezade Goes West, in which Mernissi sees that the constraints on yt women’s bodies is one of time, not space.
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as a cis woman: no
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Reminds me of all the homophobes that say "of course sex with men is more addicting and gratifying, but that's because it only consists of pleasure and not the heavy lifting of creating new life"
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JK Rowling talking about how sick at heart she feels at knowing she "would be transed" if she were a teen today sounds eerily similar to Orson Scott Card talking about the universal gay temptations that beset all healthy young men
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